Django Real-Time Chat App: WebSockets Setup (The Absolute Beginner Guide) - Part 1

Are you ready to add blazing-fast, real-time features to your Django projects? In *Part 1* of this highly-requested series, we dive deep into *Django Channels* and *WebSockets* to set up the foundation for a complete chat application!

This tutorial is perfect for intermediate Django developers looking to level up their skills with the modern *ASGI* standard. We cover everything from package installation to configuring the core *WebSocket Consumer* for two-way, client-server communication.

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🛠️ Code & Resources
*Full Source Code for this project:* [https://github.com/snipher-marube/web...]
*Part 2 (Coming Soon!):* []

💡 What You Will Learn
How to switch a Django project from WSGI to **ASGI**.
The function of the *ProtocolTypeRouter* and URLRouter.
How to create and structure a WebSocket *Consumer* class.
Implementing *two-way data transfer* (send and receive) between the server and the client.

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#DjangoChannels #WebSockets #RealTimeDjango #ASGI #PythonWebDevelopment #DjangoTutorial #SnipherDev #LiveChatApp #Django2025 #BackendDevelopment

*Stay tuned for Part 2, where we implement Channel Layers to allow multiple users to join a single chat room!*